Non-Member and Temporary Records
Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 9:19 pm
This question comes from me investigating potential custom report bugs, found in this thread: http://tech.lds.org/forum/showthread.php?t=3795
We have 3 Nonmember records in our unit's MLS. I know this because I can go to the "Remove Nonmember" under "Other Record Changes" and see the 3 records listed in the Member Selection dialog box that is common throughout the software when choosing a particular member. When you view any of these individual records (not through the Remove functionality), you see Address, Contact Information, Household Members, and then only a limited amount of the Personal Information (Full Name, Maiden Name, Preferred Name, and Sex). When you look at the Household Members, you can see that this nonmember actually has a membership record number that does not contain our unit number in it (I assume that means it's not a Temporary Record?).
Now we also have 1 Temporary Record, which I know because of the "Remove Temporary Records" functionality similar to what I found above. This temporary record also appears to be the same person as one of our nonmember records. When you look at this particular household, the record number is blank. But when I look at the member spouse's individual record, under the Spouse tab I can see that this nonmember actually has a membership record number like the other two nonmembers (with no unit number in it).
To me, it appears the Temporary Record is an extra, unnecessary one. Is my assumption correct? Any advice on how to clean this up if necessary? Do I need more investigation first?
Perhaps it is even throwing off my custom report as I mentioned in the thread linked to at the top of this post. In fact, it appears only the temporary record (with no birth date) is making it into the custom report.
Thanks in advance.
We have 3 Nonmember records in our unit's MLS. I know this because I can go to the "Remove Nonmember" under "Other Record Changes" and see the 3 records listed in the Member Selection dialog box that is common throughout the software when choosing a particular member. When you view any of these individual records (not through the Remove functionality), you see Address, Contact Information, Household Members, and then only a limited amount of the Personal Information (Full Name, Maiden Name, Preferred Name, and Sex). When you look at the Household Members, you can see that this nonmember actually has a membership record number that does not contain our unit number in it (I assume that means it's not a Temporary Record?).
Now we also have 1 Temporary Record, which I know because of the "Remove Temporary Records" functionality similar to what I found above. This temporary record also appears to be the same person as one of our nonmember records. When you look at this particular household, the record number is blank. But when I look at the member spouse's individual record, under the Spouse tab I can see that this nonmember actually has a membership record number like the other two nonmembers (with no unit number in it).
To me, it appears the Temporary Record is an extra, unnecessary one. Is my assumption correct? Any advice on how to clean this up if necessary? Do I need more investigation first?
Perhaps it is even throwing off my custom report as I mentioned in the thread linked to at the top of this post. In fact, it appears only the temporary record (with no birth date) is making it into the custom report.
Thanks in advance.